Mel Houser, M.D., Executive Director, All Brains Belong VT (11/14/2023) Click here for plain language summary We all have different brains. Different brains have different needs. And yet, most people’s experience of healthcare is that it is offered in one…
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Blog: When Patients Give Up on Healthcare
Mel Houser, M.D., Executive Director, All Brains Belong VT (10/10/2023) Click here for plain language summary Look anywhere on social media today and one trend is clear: Autistic adults have largely given up on healthcare. Why? Because they don’t get…
Blog: Neurodivergent Patients are Dying – and What We’re Doing About It
Mel Houser, M.D., Executive Director, All Brains Belong VT (9/20/2023 Click here for Plain Language Summary Neurodivergent patients are dying. The life expectancy for an Autistic adult is 36-54 years, with premature cardiovascular disease and suicide as leading causes.1-3 ADHD…
Blog: Doctors & Patients – Bridging the Double Empathy Problem
Patients come to All Brains Belong because their needs were not met by the traditional healthcare system. I spend a lot of my day hearing patients describe their experiences of being misunderstood, dismissed, invalidated. Shamed. Traumatized.
The Double Empathy Problems allows us to see that the true villain of those stories is not an individual, but a system.
In the short video clip above, you can watch me and my colleagues here at All Brains Belong, Gabe Worzella DO and Sierra Miller APRN, discussing how the healthcare system thwarts everyone — patients and clinicians alike. Nobody has their access needs met. And everyone suffers.